Just a mini entry. The garden's still in the in-between time, with not much to harvest right now. I'm kicking myself for not planting zucchini or cucumbers, and wanted to jot that down for when I'm referring to this year's blog entries at planting time next year. I did have reasons for not planting either of those - mostly that I have limited space in my garden and zucchini and cukes take up a lot of real estate. Also, the squash borers get my zucchini every year, and I thought maybe taking a year off would teach them to look elsewhere and save my crop next year. A girl can dream!
One more note-to-self. Next year plant some non-heirloom tomato varieties. I'm still having the problem where the majority of my tomato flowers dry up, fall off and don't become tomatoes. Some plants are worse than others. The Yellow Pear is going crazy (in a good way), and the Black Krim is producing well. But my Aker's West Virginia still doesn't have a single tomato. Grrrr. It was a good learning experience if nothing else. Next year I'll go with a majority of Big Beef, Jet Star and generic grape and cherry tomatoes, and will probably plant at least one Yellow Pear and Black Krim.
For
now, here are some pics of my flowering green beans (mini beans are
forming... could have first harvest next week!), and my small ground
cherry, berry, tomatillo and pepper harvest from Saturday.
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| Baby Beans a Formin'! |
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| Bean Bed |
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| Jalapenos, Sweet Peppers and Tomatillos, Oh My! (and one yellow pear tomato) |
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| Blueberries, Strawberries and Ground Cherries. I had ground cherry Greek yogurt that afteroon. Yummy! |
I'm jealous of your green beans! lol So let me ask, do green beans need something to climb? I want to plant them next year and I need to figure out how much room they are going to need. We learned some things this year, like squash plants are HUGE and cucumbers do indeed take up a good amount of space. So next year we want to make sure we give everyone the space they need to thrive and not choke each other out. I have no clue how our garden will look when we get home from vacation. Probably a jungle!
ReplyDeleteHey there Deb! There are actually two kind of green beans. This year I planted bush beans (Tenderette is my favorite variety) and they don't climb. I like Tenderette because they produce all summer. Most bush beans just have one big harvest and are done. There are also pole beans, that need a trellis of some kind. Just about all pole beans are ever-bearing, like the Tenderette bush beans. In theory you get more beans in less space with pole beans because the beans grow vertically, but I think I'm actually getting better yields with my Tenderette bush beans than I did with Kentucky Wonder pole beans last year. I have my bush beans in a 3ft x 6ft spot. Hope that helped!
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